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Jaeden Schaefer

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AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

It's not automatically doing something for me.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And that example I just gave you is like very basic.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

I mean,

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

I think ideally you would upload an audio file and it would fill out all of the data and automatically find the best time to post it and look at your calendar and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

Like it's just going through and automatically doing stuff.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

That is what they're looking for, not a chat bar on the side.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

Okay, so what are they less interested in?

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

What are investors less interested in investing in AI right now?

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And what that is, is thin workflow layers.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

So generic horizontal tools, light product management software, and surface level analytics.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

If an AI agent can replicate the core value quickly, I think investors are not seeing this as very defensible.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

So maybe even some of my previous examples weren't the greatest because in a sense, what they want tools to be able to do is have some sort of custom data set, some sort of

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

you know, deep integration into something that's super, super critical.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And it's not something that just like a chat GPT or anthropic can can replicate easily.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

So it's really interesting.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

what is actually being seen as defensible today.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

So Abdul Abdirhan of F prime added that vertical software without any proprietary data moats is no longer super compelling.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

So they actually want you to have a data moat, maybe you ran a you know, an

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

an FAQ legal website.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

So you have all of this data on, you know, legal FAQ questions.